Published by AJC.com on Thursday, January 7, 2016
Stockbridge High School was one of five schools nationwide awarded $5,000 to obtain tablets and computers, as a recipient of the Lead2Feed Challenge Early Entry Drawing. The Stockbridge team, led by teacher Leigh Jackson, established an in-house food pantry for students, faculty and staff who found themselves in temporary need of food assistance. Overall, the students collected more than 500 items over a three-day donation period by offering incentives like homework passes and cookies. The team also enlisted their local Community Food Bank to partner with them for the pantry. In the Lead2Feed program, students select a hunger or other community-need project, partner with a nonprofit and compete for more than $275,000 in charity grants and $170,000 in technology grants for schools and clubs. Since the program’s launch in 2012, student members have volunteered more than 22,000 hours, donated 75,000 pounds of food and served more than one million meals in their communities. Teachers or advisers can register their student teams on www.lead2feed.org.